This Day In Rock History

This Day In Rock History: October 23rd


1978 - CBS Records raised the price of vinyl records by one dollar to $8.98.

2001 - Apple Computers publicly announced their portable music digital player called the iPod.


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This Day In Rock History: October 23rd


1993 Meat Loaf topped the UK singles chart with "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)", which would also rise to number one in the US two weeks later. In all, the song would top record charts in twenty-eight countries around the globe.


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This Day In Rock History: October 23rd


1966: The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded their first single, “Hey Joe,” two weeks after their live debut, at De Lane Lea Studios in London. The song had already been recorded by the Byrds, Love, the Standells, and many other bands, but Hendrix’s down-tempo arrangement had been inspired by folk artist Tim Rose’s version. Some accounts credit the slower version of the song by the British band The Creation as being the inspiration for Hendrix’s version, as Chandler and Hendrix had seen them perform after Hendrix had arrived in the UK, though The Creation’s version was not released until after Hendrix’s. Hendrix was so shy about his voice that manager Chandler even hired a female vocal group, the Breakaways, for backup. “Hey Joe” became the Experience’s first UK chart entry, rising to #6, and it wasn’t released in the US until the beginning of May the following year as the B-side to “51st Anniversary,” which failed to chart. It was also the last song played at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, in which Hendrix performed the song after the crowd of 80,000 cheered for an encore.


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This Day In Rock History: October 23rd


1982: Billy Idol released “White Wedding” as the second single from his self-titled second studio album. The song later reached #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 and, after being re-issued in the UK in 1985, #6 on the UK chart.


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This Day In Music History: October 23rd


A few albums that was released....


1970 ● Genesis —— Trespass ► Pop-Rock

1995 ● Ozzy Osbourne —— Ozzmosis ► Hard Rock

2007 ● Heart —— Dreamboat Annie Live ► Album Rock


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This Day In Rock History: October 22nd


1969 Led Zeppelin II was released on Atlantic Records in the UK. The Jimmy Page produced album which was recorded over six months between four European and three American tours, peaked at No.1 in both the UK and US, going on to sell over 12 million copies in the US alone, (and spending 138 weeks on the UK chart). The album is now recognized by writers and music critics as one of the greatest and most influential rock albums ever recorded.

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I recall buying it a few days after it came out at the local record shop at IU Bloomington literally across the street from main campus....ran to my brothers dorm room 3 blocks away to play it on his stereo which was better than mine.

This Day In Rock History: October 24th


2016 American singer Bobby Vee died age 73. Vee had 38 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20. Vee's recording of 'Take Good Care of My Baby' in the summer of 1961 went to No.1 in the US and No.3 in the UK. Vee's career began in the midst of tragedy. On February 3, 1959, "The Day the Music Died," when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper, were killed in an airplane. Vee then 15 years old, and a hastily assembled band of Fargo schoolboys calling themselves the Shadows volunteered for and were given the unenviable job of filling in for Holly and his band at their next gig. Their performance was a success, setting in motion a chain of events that led to Vee's career as a popular singer.

2017 American pianist and singer-songwriter Fats Domino died aged 89 at his home in Harvey, Louisiana after a long-term illness. Domino attracted national attention with his first recording, ‘The Fat Man’, made in late 1949 for Imperial Records, an early rock-and-roll record. ‘The Fat Man’ sold one million copies by 1953 and it is widely considered the first rock-and-roll record to achieve this feat. Domino had 35 records in the US Billboard Top 40. Domino’s 1956 version of ‘Blueberry Hill’ was selected for the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry of historic sound recordings worthy of preservation.


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This Day In Rock History: October 24th


1936 Bill Wyman, future bass player for The Rolling Stones, is born William George Perks in South London, England.

1946 Jerry Edmonton (drummer for Steppenwolf) is born Gerald McCrohan in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.

1948 Dale "Buffin" Griffin (drummer for Mott The Hoople) is born Terence Dale Griffin in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England.


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This Day In Rock History: October 24th


1977: Electric Light Orchestra released their seventh studio album, Out of the Blue. Written and produced by frontman Jeff Lynne, the double album is among the group’s most commercially successful records.

1980: In Britain, John Lennon released “(Just Like) Starting Over,” his first single in five years and the first single released from his album with wife Yoko Ono, Double Fantasy. Its US release followed three days later. After Lennon’s death, the single went to #1 on both sides of the Atlantic and was Lennon’s first solo #1 in the UK.

1995: Bob Seger released his fifteenth studio album, It’s a Mystery. Recorded with The Silver Bullet Band, it was Seger’s last album before taking a hiatus from the music industry until the release of Face the Promise in 2006.


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This Day In Rock History: October 24th


2005 Guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker opened a sold-out, three-night stand at New York's Madison Square Garden


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